Wednesday, July 8, 2009

GLBT News Headlines (T4T-6)

HATE HIM OR LOVE HIM? The controversial celebrity blogger Perez Hilton was heralded for criticizing Miss California Carrie Prejean, then ignited a firestorm when he published compromising photos of screenwriter and LGBT crusader Dustin Lance Black. So what does Perez have to say for himself?
DON and rsquo;T TELL MR. FURLEY! Former Three and rsquo;s Company star Joyce DeWitt landed in hot water over the holiday weekend with a D.U.I...
FAMOUS FROM A YOUNG AGE: Brooke Shields remembers The King of Pop in the upcoming commemorative issue of Rolling Stone...
Meeting in San Diego this past week, the National Education Association — the nation’s largest professional employee organization, with 3.2 million members who work at every level of education — voted on two resolutions that support the cause of LGBT equality.  The first opposed any discrimination against same-sex couples.  Furthermore, they endorsed a federal law [...]
Today we saw marriage recognition in DC and according to Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, we could see similar action soon in Maryland.  As we’ve reported Maryland’s Attorney General is considering whether out-of-state marriages between same-sex couples can be recognized in the state.  Yesterday on WTOP Radio, Gov. O’Malley said: “I think that it’s very difficult to deny equal [...]
This weekend marked the 10th anniversary of the murder of Pfc. Barry Winchell, a 22 year old soldier who was killed by a comrade with a baseball bat as he lay asleep in his bed.  Winchell was in a relationship with Calpernia Addams – a transgender woman — and once this came to light, he was [...]
The Sun-Times reports: A statue containing the ashes of a gay activist has been recovered after it had been stolen from an Uptown memorial garden last month. Over the weekend, the Bird Girl sculpture was found outside the Howard Brown Health Center, which last year created the garden to honor lesbian health advocates Mary York and Lisa Tonna, who died last year. Get the full story: suntimes.com
The Lesbian and Gay Equality Project is concerned about an increase in homophobic attacks.
Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's daughter Rumer Willis is slated to play gay for The CW. The former couple's oldest daughter will play Gia, a punky lesbian at the school newspaper for one episode of 90210, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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